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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1918
Page
5
The weekly feature highlights children’s growing interest in books, with a county library circulation record approaching that of adults. Children and youths show a rising literacy habit, surpassing adults in non fiction reading and developing strong literary taste and awareness of library benefits.
A new children's game promises widespread appeal beyond the common playthings. It features fifty cards with two quotations per side and mirrors authorial styles, aiming to teach by popularizing titles such as Kipling, Sidney, Hawthorne, and Dickenson through engaging prompts and simple rules.
A child friendly collection titled Fun with the Fairies offers original fairy tales by Mire. Geraldine Berkeley featuring stories like The Flight to Mt. Head and The Fire Morning in Bunta's Home and Crocus Fairies. The author and relatives wrote these tales in Pendleton and the poems and quotes add literary charm.
County Library reports the purchase of several hundred children’s books now ready for circulation. A partial list is provided and display will continue at the loan desk for the coming week. Children with clean hands may borrow these books at once.
A compact listing presents matchups and pairings among school teams and players including Alcott-Sea Boys, Alcott-Little Women, Hurgens-Goops, Burgess-More Goope, Bush-Prairie Rose, and Duncan-Billy Topsail, M. D. appearing as cross references in a local roster.
The United States Food Administration asks Americans to follow wheatless days and meals twice weekly and one wheatless day a month, with Victory Bread under 80 percent wheat and other grains allowed. Meatless days and porkless days are outlined, egg shortages cause trading bans on pullets and hens, and substitutes like fish and legumes are encouraged. Also includes a brief ad for Chamberlains Tablets to ease bilious attacks.
The Artcraft release The Devil Stone starring Geraldine Farrar opens at the Arcade this Sunday and Monday. The tale centers on a black cat omen in a storm and the lingering superstition in everyday life as part of the film’s mood.
Taylor Holmes stars in The Small Town Guy as a naive youth drawn into Chicago crooks and a dam project scam, ending in justice and romance with Eleanor in Compton Center. Harold Lockwood headlines The Square Deceiver, with Pauline Curley and other Triangle players in a Metro wonderplay at the Alta theater Sunday and Monday.
A health-claiming note advises regular meat eaters to flush kidneys with Satta Salts a few days to relieve dull kidney pain and frequency at night. The remedy, lemon juice and beer blend, purportedly cleanses kidneys and bladder irritation, described as a tasty effervescent drink used by millions.
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